Quotes About Author

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

When admiring human accomplishments we should not confusethe achievements of the few for the capacity of the many.

Start each day with thoughts of gratitude and you will attract the power of love.

Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts.

that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.

HER BARBED-WIRE SMILELIFTED YOU TO HEAVENBUT I HAVE TO ASKDID GOD LOOK LIKE HER VOICE

My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

I can't understand God and I can't understand myself, so there's no chance in hell that I'm going to understand you!

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it.

Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing.

Curiosity is god's greatest gift to man, but my gift is a little amplified.

We're wasting our time trying to deal with Baghdad, It's better to call for independence today.

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.